Wobec Gałczyńskiego: Iwaszkiewicz i inni (z dziejów poety nieobojętnego)

Abstract

The article is an attempt to reconstruct the relationship between Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz and his close circles and Konstanty I. Gałczyński. The nature of the relationship was ambivalent. In Polish press in the years 1946–1953, the author of Zaczarowana dorożka [The Enchanted Carriage] was both glorified and criticised. The famous fragment of Adam Ważyk’s speech of June 1950, the best-known manifestation of the disputable presence of Gałczyński in the post-war literary life is one of many proofs that he became a kind of a “whipping poet”. The lyrics and other writings by Konstanty Ildefons inspired usually anonymous authors to write their parodies. The article documents the reception of the life and works of Gałczyński and presents his connections with the people and government institutions of the People’s Republic of Poland in an interpersonal perspective, revealing a dangerous game between the lyricist and current politics.